Mr. Coffee 5 Cup Coffee Maker

So I usually drink a couple cups of coffee a day and I like my coffee really watered down. My husband likes his coffee black and thick (ick!). So instead of drinking his tar like coffee every morning I decided to get my own little coffee maker so I can make my coffee the way I like it! :) This is an awesome little coffee maker and makes just enough perfect tasting coffee for me! :-)

I've be using various incarnations of this Mr Coffee 4 to 5 cup drip coffee maker for over 8-years. Durability is excellent EXCEPT that the glass decanter tends to break easily, and you almost certainly cannot find replacements (model TF-6 NP) in stores; even Amazon did not have them at time of this review. So I was forced to buy an entirely new unit, even though the old one worked fine. The last decanter I broke, like always, was fractured on its side-wall, where glass is very thin. I took a pair of calipers to a broken piece, and measured glass thickness at only 1/25 of an inch thick (1mm). So that's why its side-walls break so easily. However, glass on the bottom is much thicker and therefore more impact resistant. Anyway, if you're careful, this little guy will make thousands of cups of coffee, before you break the glass decanter, and that is my only complaint. It's perfect for making even a single cup of your favorite coffee, as strong, or as weak as you like it. It is also much less expensive than the K-cup machines, and it occupies less counter space, to boot.